A Martinez clinic spay-neuter clinic will be offering discounted spay and neuter services on Thursday as part of Fix Georgia Pets Day.

Heartsong Spay Neuter Clinic at 412 S. Belair Road is one of numerous Georgia clinics to participate in the effort to prevent animal overpopulation. The event is sponsored by Fix Georgia Pets, a nonprofit organization.

Fix Georgia Pets Executive Director Gigi Graves said in a press release that unwanted animals, mostly dogs and cats, end up abandoned and ultimately in public animal control centers where 62 percent are euthanized.

Local franchisees Pat, Sandy and Daniel Landon, of Bojland Restaurant Group LLC, will operate the restaurant at 5105 Wrightsboro Road, the fourth Bojangles’ to be run by the family in the area. Since 2002, the Landons have owned Bojangles’ in Augusta, North Augusta and Thomson.

“As we’ve successfully grown three other locations, we knew it was time to bring Bojangles’ to Grovetown,” Pat Landon said. “We’ve been very fortunate to have such loyal customers and high demand in this region.”

Columbia County authorities arrested a North Carolina man who traveled to the county Tuesday to have sex with a teenage girl.

John Roy Langer, 37, of Asheville, N.C., was charged with criminal attempt to commit aggravated child molestation. He’s being held in the Columbia County Detention Center without bond, according to jail records.

Langer had been communicating online with a sheriff’s office investigator posing as a young teenage girl. When he arrived at Patriots Park for a meeting with the girl just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, he was met instead with investigators.